Martin\'s public school friendship with Ben always alleviated Martin\'s feeling of being the scholarship boy who struggled to fit in, but the secret that Martin knows about Ben injects a destabilising tension into Ben\'s elite 40th birthday celebration, in a literary thriller reminiscent of Alan Hollinghurst\'s }The Line Of Beauty{..
Martin\'s public school friendship with Ben always alleviated Martin\'s feeling of being the scholarship boy who struggled to fit in, but the secret that Martin knows about Ben injects a destabilising tension into Ben\'s elite 40th birthday celebration, in a literary thriller reminiscent of Alan Hollinghurst\'s }The Line Of Beauty{.